This study is part of a project to develop an automatic method to build ontologies, especially in a medical domain, from a document collection. An earlier study had investigated an approach to inferring semantic relations between medical concepts using the UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) semantic net. The study found that semantic relations between concepts could be inferred 68% of the t...

background: this paper examined the political and social implications of the compendium de epidemia prescription written by the masters of the faculty of medicine of the university of paris in the mid-14th century during the black death. this study aimed to examine how the effects of power as a discourse owned by medical knowledge are revealed. methods: this paper outlines the composition of th...

stroke is one of the most common diseases among the elderly with high personal and societal costs. in recent years, robotic rehabilitation for stroke has become an active area of research for assistance, monitoring and qualifying the rehabilitation treatments. the key issue needed for improving rehabilitation system is that patient feedback should be taken into account by the robotic rehabilita...

Medical Image segmentation is to partition the image into a set of regions that are visually obvious and consistent with respect to some properties such as gray level, texture or color. Brain tumor classification is an imperative and difficult task in cancer radiotherapy. The objective of this research is to examine the use of pattern classification methods for distinguishing different types of...